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Healing the sick

DALLAS (ABP) — What distinguishes religiously affiliated hospitals from their secular counterparts? Chaplains and charity care top the list, administrators of faith-based, nonprofit healthcare institutions agree. “Every morning at 5 a.m., a chaplain goes into our surgical unit, where he…

Healing the sick: Chaplains, charity care distinguish faith-based hospitals

A Hillcrest Health System pediatric nurse tends to a child. DALLAS (ABP) — What distinguishes religiously affiliated hospitals from their secular counterparts? Chaplains and charity care top the list, administrators of faith-based, nonprofit healthcare institutions agree. “Every morning at 5…

Garland named interim president at Baylor

David Garland WACO, Texas (ABP) — The Baylor University board of regents has named David Garland as interim president. Garland has been dean of the Texas Baptist school's George W. Truett Theological Seminary since June 2007. He will continue as…

Saddleback forum points out candidates’ differences, similarities

LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP) — Individual stand on moral issues — from personal character to the international arena — was the foundation of the Aug. 16 Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency. The two-hour forum, sponsored by Southern Baptist mega-congregation…

Former Texas church planter files libel suit against BGCT, others

EDINBURG, Texas (ABP) — A former Hispanic church planter implicated in a 2006 Baptist General Convention of Texas scandal has filed a defamation lawsuit against the BGCT and several other Texas Baptist entities and individuals. Otto Arango, founder of the…

C.W. Brister, longtime Southwestern pastoral-care professor, dies at 82

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — C.W. Brister, Jr., who taught pastoral counseling and theology to generations of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students, died Aug. 9, reportedly of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 82. Brister was a professor of…

Americans act as Georgian Baptists call for aid, end to conflict

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptists in the United States and elsewhere in the world are responding with aid and prayers for their counterparts in the embattled former Soviet republic of Georgia. It was unclear by midday Aug. 14 whether…

Truett-McConnell College calls Caner as president

Emir Caner CLEVELAND, Ga. (ABP) — A Sunni Muslim-turned-conservative Baptist has been tapped as the eighth president of Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga. College trustees voted Aug. 8 to name Emir Caner to the position. Caner is founding dean of…

View scandal in light of private and public story

By Beth Newman The recent spectacle of John Edwards’ confession of adultery managed to be at once pathetic and instructive. While bearing in mind Lily Tomlin’s observation that no matter how cynical one becomes, it’s impossible to keep up, I…

Developing ‘Conservative radicals’ in Christian higher education

By David Gushee In his recent book, The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis suggests that it is time to move beyond the conservative vs. liberal paradigm to a framework he calls conservative radicalism. This is true in American culture, in evangelicalism…

Man shoots Ark. Democratic chairman, menaces Baptist Building

The Arkansas Baptist State Convention building is just blocks from the Arkansas Democratic Party offices on Capitol Avenue in downtown Little Rock LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP) — A man fitting the description of a suspect who shot and killed the…

Gay Christians can’t wait any longer

Editor’s note: The recent series of articles by David Gushee on homosexuality generated an unusual amount of response. ABP solicited these two representative responses — from Peggy Campolo, an advocate for gay Christians, and George Guthrie , a professor at…

Lindsey Graham spoke at Baptist church a week before his death

When leaders know better but choose a different path

On the death of Lindsey Graham

Farewell, Three Amigos